Berkeley Divinity School at Yale Position Profile President and Dean Berkeley Divinity School at Yale

Purpose: Berkeley Divinity School at Yale is searching for a new Dean for an extraordinary "both/and" opportunity: the leadership of a highly respected Episcopal divinity school in affiliation with Yale's ecumenical divinity school.

Vision for the Future

The Board of Trustee's vision is for BDS to become a center for creative leadership and mission for the vitalization of Christian communities in The Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, and Christianity worldwide. We must measure ourselves by how successful our students are in showing people the Good News of Jesus - through their formation, knowledge, experience, ability to teach, and by the way they live their own lives - and in so doing creating new disciples. Our graduates will serve in a time of significant change and challenge for the Church. BDS will prepare them for this by providing: • rigorous academic pedagogy, spiritual formation, and entrepreneurial and theological leadership training in one of the world's leading research universities • a place where they can model a strong and vibrant Christian community among a highly diverse student body and a three-year residential seminary environment

• an ecumenical and interfaith context for learning at YDS and

• financial support such that graduates will be less constrained by financial considerations when seeking a calling

• the opportunity to develop as faithful and spiritually resilient leaders, capable of creating new and effective models of ministry

• experimentation in innovative ministry to share the Good News of God in Christ in a rapidly changing world of ever greater cultural and spiritual diversity

This vision needs to be more fully shaped: it emerged out of the Board's 2012 process of revising and updating its long-range strategic plan, with an eye towards building on past accomplishments and school strengths while engaging with challenges facing The Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion and Christianity at large. The new President/Dean will be expected to elaborate and develop this into a long-term strategy.

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